Awareness! The Headphone App

$6.99
Developer: Essency

Description: Being on the street listening to music on your headphones sounds familiar? Many visually impaired people do this and we love it, and Awareness! The Headphone App, is essential for us. It allows you to listen to your headphones while also hearing the sounds around you. It uses the microphone to feed in noises as you listen to music or use another app.

Hear a car approaching or a doorbell ringing! Using Awareness, you will not miss those vital audio clues that keep your day on track.

iOS 7: I havent used it but some friends tell me the app is accessible.

Dolphin Browser

Free
Developer: Mobotap, Inc

Description: Great web browser that allows you to share webpages, tweet content, share on Facebook, share by Email. Over 50000000 millions downloads. Search Online with voice. This browser has a lot of features!
This app is not very accessible with VOICEOVER in certain areas but is definitely usable and good!

Say it & Mail It Recorder

$1.99

VIDEO REVIEW

Developer: Carnation Software

Description: This app has blown me away!!! The app is fully accessible with VOICEOVER. This is the fastest way to send an Audio Memo, video, movie or picture with GPS Location to all the people you know. The videos have to be small i am sure but i tried sending an audio memo to someone using GMAIL and not only he could play the memo in 1 second but there was a link to Google Maps to find out where i was sending this from and he found my current location!!!
This is one of the most powerful apps in the world!!!

WireShare

Free
Developer: Feetan

Description: This app allows you to transfer music, photos, files from your PC to your iPhone, you don’t need iTunes, just a WI-FI connection in both your iPhone and PC connected to the same Network. This app is totally accessible with VOICEOVER.
Works very well!!

Is it dark outside?

Free
Developer: Dirk Malony

Description: Based on your location and time zone this app tells you if its dark already or not. The app also has the information of your current time, sunset time and altitude! This app is accessible with VOICEOVER.

Appalerts

Free
Developer: Blits Brothers

Description: Instant alerts for new app releases, just type a word that you wish an app to contain in its name or description and app alerts will alert you when is released, totally accessible with VOICEOVER. Example: Blind, visually impaired…
If the app name or description contains these words this app will send you a push notification when an app with this text is released!

Younity

Free
Developer: Entagled Media Corp

Description: This app is accessible with VOICEOVER and allows you to browse your PC/MAC documents on your iDevice. Once you download the app on your device you will find instructions on what to do on your compouter and this app is being talked about in many Online places!

Instabrowser Zero

Free
Developer: Stefanik Software

Description: Fastest browser on the iPhone, very cool! Its great when you have a bad internet connection! This app is accessible with VOICEOVER. This app downloads HTML first and that makes it be very fast!

TeamViewer Quicksupport

Free
Developer: Teamviewer

Description: Get real-time support in your iPhone from an expert from a PC or Mac. The person helping you can get access to all your files and configuration through this app! The tech person has to install the full version of Team Viewer in the computer and you need to provide them with your iPhone ID.

Mozy

Free
Developer: Mozy, Inc

Description: This app helps you sync your files between your device and your cloud. This app is fairly accessible with VOICEOVER.
You need a Mozy account and there are free and paid accounts.
This app is a backup manager app.

Body temperature

Free
Developer: Limit Point Software

Description: Detect your body temperature with one tap!
This app is accessible with VOICEOVER, just double tap the top of the screen and will tell you your body temperature although the app claims is for entertainment only and may not be accurate.

iGotya

Free
Developer: Fintan Killoran

Description: This app is for people with some residual vision, helps you remember your location, take a picture and add a note to remember where you left your baggage or car. This app seems to be more for people with low vision than for someone totally blind.

Nosquint

Free
Developer: Surfels

Description: Helps the visually impaired and blind interact with your Contacts. If you want to use this app to its full potential is worth buying the paid version. Dial without looking at the screen, identify your contacts by their voice, create full screen contacts page and much more…

Say Color

Free
Developer: Hotpaw productions

Description: This very powerful app allows a visually impaired or totally blind person to recognize the color of anything by pointing the iPhone to a item and double tapping the screen near the bottom will tell you the closest color of the item, double tapping the screen near the center top of the screen will tell you the RGB code of the color meaning the exact color code which can help you when choosing socks where both socks have to be exactly the same color and accuracy is critical.

iOS 7: This app is great, disable VOICEOVER, touch the screen at the middle top and will speak the RGB of the color you are pointing at.

Camfind

Free
Developer: Image Searcher

Description: Take a picture of anything around you and receive information about it. This is like a image search app. Its totally accessible for the blind. If you are traveling you can take a picture of a landmark that seems well known and it can recognize it.

Talking Goggles

Free
Developer: Sparkling Apps

Description: This app can identify logos, landmarks, CDS, has a video mode that helps you recognize in real-time many things, in picture mode you can take pictures of products and different things and will recognize it and find related information.
The technology of this app is very interesting, they are improving more and more this powerful app, try it!

AllAccess + LogoLauncher! Search or scan a logos

Free
Developer: AllAccess

Description: Instantly access talking menus, discounts, directions & more from nearby businesses! All Access is great for everyone, but is ideal for Blind, Low-Vision, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Non-Verbal and Non-English speaking users. Menus and other options can be read out loud, using Apple’s VoiceOver or our own high quality TTS (Text-To-Speech) by turning Talking Hints ON in the app’s settings.

You can ‘build your order’ and have it spoken out loud to the wait staff! This is great if you are deaf, hard of hearing, Non-Verbal or not a native English speaker!

LookTel VoiceOver Tutorial

Free
Developer: IPPLEX

Description: This app provides a basic introduction to VoiceOver and the gestures used throughout iOS. Persons new to VoiceOver and IOS are guided through the tutorial with a pleasant mix of facts and entertainment. Once the app is started with VoiceOver running, the text and elementary games provide a practice of the basic gestures used with VoiceOver and IOS.

As each new gesture is introduced, it is accompanied by an interactive practice screen. The core basics are covered:
This app is for Ios 6 and earlier, may have a Ios 7 update in the future.

SayText

Free
Developer: Haave Oi

Description: SayText is a scanner app for the visually impaired and blind! It reads out loud the text in the image. Instructions:
Place the iPhone center of a document and double-tap the “Take picture” -button Slowly elevate the iPhone upwards from the document, until the whole document is in picture. A beep sound indicates, that the document has been detected.

The camera will shoot automatically when focused While the OCR is running, tap the screen to hear the progress status When the OCR is ready, swipe right on the screen to listen the document

TapTapSee – 10 Dollars per 100 Pictures

Developer: Imagesearcher

Description: TapTapSee is designed to help the blind and visually impaired identify objects they encounter in their daily lives.
In my view is one of the best all around apps in the world!!!
Simply double tap the screen to take a photo of anything and hear the app speak the identification back to you.

(Note: Spoken identification requires VoiceOver to be turned on). Listen here to my interview to the developers of TapTapSee.

ViA by Braille institute

Free

Developer: Braille Institute

Description: Via (Visually Impaired Apps) is the most complete app directory by categories designed for the visually impaired and blind of all ages, totally accessible with VOICEOVER provides links to hundreds of apps we can use, some FREE and some paid, a MUST-HAVE for us all!!!

iOS 7: This app is fully accessible with VOICEOVER, be a little patient as it takes a bit to load content sometimes.

VizWiz

Free

Developer: RochCI

Description: VizWiz lets blind users recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in nearly real-time. Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers.

VO Calendar

$9.99

Developer: Devista B.V
NOTE: Can only be used together with VoiceOver (for blind and partially sighted people).

Description: VO Calendar is a weekly calendar specifically designed to be used with VoiceOver. The result of this VoiceOver-only design is not only a smoother navigation through the app. It also makes it possible for the VoiceOver speech to give smart summaries depending on the context. This prevents you from having to go through each event Individually.

Existing events are automatically synchronized. If you prefer not to type, you can record voice memos instead. You can use VO Calendar with the VoiceOver gestures you are used to. Super powerful calendar for the visually impaired and blind.

iOS 7: This app is one of the most downloaded by blind people so it must be very accessible.

Voice vision

Free
Developer: Zhi Zheng

Description: This is a utility to help visual impaired persons to get a quick view of the surrounding environment by the camera.It helps you to detect walls,doors,windows,light sources.You can use it to know object’s colors .
This application convert image from the back camera to sound . It scans from left to right ,one to four times per second .

A pixel from the image generate a tone at pitch from 440HZ to 15000HZ,the brightness controls the loudness of the tone. The pixels from the top generate high pitch sounds , and the pixels from the bottom of the image generate low pitch sounds . There are about 30 pixels generate sounds at the same time ,like 30 peoples sing together with different loudness.

AudioLabels Lite

Free

Developer: Everyware Technologies

Description: AudioLabels helps visually impaired persons to recognize objects through an audio description associated to barcodes or QR codes. The FREE version is very limited.
The paid version is 9.99 which makes it the same price as Digit-Eyes a competitor app, analyze both which have a FREE version before buying one.

Light Detector

$0.99
Developer: Everyware Technologies

Description: Have you ever listened to light? With Light Detector, now you can! Light Detector transforms any natural or artificial light source it encounters into sound. Light Detector is easy to use! Just run the application and point your iPhone camera in any direction. You will hear a higher or lower sound depending on the intensity of the light.

If you are blind, Light Detector helps you to be more independent in many daily activities. At home, point your iPhone towards the ceiling to understand where the light fixtures are and whether they are switched on. In a room, move the device along the wall to check if there is a window and where it is. You can find out whether the shades are drawn by moving the device up and down.

iOS 7: This app has been recommended to me a lot so although i havent tried yet because i can still perceive light seems accessible for sure!

TypeInBraille

$4.99

Developer: Everyware Technologies

Description: TypeInBraille allows you to write in Braille on your iPhone. You can enter a character through its Braille representation using a sequence of three simple gestures. Each gesture is used to enter one of the three rows of a braille character.
You can find a full description of the typing technique at http://www.everywaretechnologies.com/apps/typeinbraille/

BrailleTouch

Free
Developer: BrailleTouch, LLC

Description: BrailleTouch is a revolutionary app for the blind community that lets you type on your touchscreen using braille. Many people have reported typing at 30 words per minute or faster with accuracy. We offer a free download of BrailleTouch so you can try it at no cost. You can enter braille on the touchscreen and hear each character and/or word as you type. The free version is also a great teaching tool for braille instructors and students.

Braillist

Free
Developer: Surabhi Gupta

Description: Braillist is a simple, powerful and effective braille keyboard for your phone. It is designed to be used by the visually impaired, braille students as well as those curious about this language.

MBraille

Free
Developer: MPAJA

Description: MBraille brings you a mobile braille keyboard.

With the free features you can type, edit and send tweets and text messages using contracted or uncontracted English braille.*With the pro version you can also use braille to call contacts or telephone numbers – send email – do facebook status updates – add calendar entries – fire away internet search engine queries – the text typed is automatically put to clipboard when you switch apps. – interact with other 3rd party applications

BigBrowser – by Braille Institute

$0.99
Developer: Braille Institute

Description: Productivity category on 25 BigBrowser is an Internet browsing application designed to help Low Vision users more easily navigate the web on their iPads. It’s extra large keyboard and controls, expanded pinch zooming, and multiple color themes make content easy to read.